reSolve: What a Load of Rubbish

• This resource is very valuable for the year 2 mathematics content description about identifying a question of interest based on a categorical variable and gathering data relevant to the question. The sequence challenges students to determine their own categories for the rubbish in the playground that are relevant to questions about planning for rubbish collection and management in the school yard.
• This resource is also extremely valuable for the year 2 mathematics content description about collecting, checking and classifying data. During the sequence, students conduct various audits of both rubbish and rubbish bins in their school, which involves collecting, checking and classifying data of different sorts.
• This resource is also valuable for the year 2 mathematics content description about creating displays of data using lists, table and picture graphs and interpreting them. The sequence of learning gives students multiple contexts to create data displays, including making alist of rubbish, making picture and column graphs, and using their data displays to answer open-ended questions.
• This resource also offers opportunities to link to the Numeracy General capability, as it engages students in asking and answering simple data questions and interpreting data in drawings and picture graphs.
• The resource also offers some connections to the cross-curriculum priority of Sustainability. Students consider how handling of rubbish impacts on a sustainable future and how they can enact planning in their school to minimise rubbish and the environmental impact of their school's rubbish.
• This resource is also of pedagogical value as it supports teachers in building an inquiry-focused learning environment with authentic application of mathematical skills and understandings. The unit aims to develop content knowledge as well as assisting students to understand the process of inquiry.

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